View full sizeConnecticut DEEPNecropsy performed on mountain lion killed in Connecticut.

The latest information to emerge about the South Dakota mountain lion killed by an
automobile in Milford, Conn., in June really doesn't help to answer questions
about whether the animal passed through Pennsylvania on its eastward journey of
more than 1,500 miles.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has
confirmed that the mountain lion was seen in Lake George, N.Y., last December.

To
pass through Lake George, where a resident of the town spotted the animal and
called the DEC, en route to Connecticut, the cougar could have gone north or
south of the Great Lakes.

DNA analysis of hair samples collected in Lake George
confirmed that they were from the same mountain lion.